Port management, union strike deal to get cranes going again
Under the understanding, the management will withdraw a lawsuit against Jovičić and the company will revise its work safety rules. The situation at the port is expected to normalise by Wednesday.
The safety rules will be revised within 90 days in cooperation with the crane operators' union and the workers' council, CEO Dimitrij Zadel said after a ten-hour meeting.
Luka Koper attempted to sack Jovičić for allegedly not following the work safety rules after being involved in a work accident last July in which a crane squashed a worker to death.
Zadel has said that Jovičić should have been sacked, but instead the previous management gave him a warehouse job, which is what Zadel's management was attempting to dispute in court.
Jovičić's colleagues saw this as an attempt to undermine the trade union and staged a go-slow protest this week that led to backlog at the port.